New Pups of 2016

Over the last few weeks we’ve had 23 new arrivals at our kennel. Only 1 litter of puppies was planned – the other 4 litters were not! Fortunately for us the parents of the other litters are good hardworking dogs which (usually) means their pups will follow suit, but only time will tell! Parents of […]

Autumn training begins

After a short holiday I returned to the training camp in Pasvikdalen to help my colleagues with the Autumn training of our 150 Alaskan huskies. The training regimen we use here follows a similar style to the one we used at my last place of employment, which I wrote about here. We have about 40 […]

They grow up so fast!

Now that I’ve got a little spare time, I’ve finally managed to collect all my puppy photos into one easy to view album! This litter of seven pups comes from Sexy (mother) and Josef (father). The ages of the pups in these photos range from about 2 weeks old at the start of the album […]

Husky Hikes & Puppy Pics

Summertime is quite relaxed in the dog yard, it is a well deserved vacation for the dogs after they have been running all winter. During the summertime our work in the dog yard revolves primarily around keeping the dogs fed and watered, as well as taking the young dogs for hikes and looking after the […]

Back in the Arctic!

I’m now back in Northern Norway but this time in a town called Kirkenes – which is about 15km from the border of Russia. I’ve taken another musher job at the Kirkenes Snow Hotel. It’s pretty much the same type of work as the one in Tromsø but this one has a few more dogs […]

Autumn Work!

The blog updates have been few and far between because I’ve been out of town completing a long and extensive Autumn dog training period in Målselv. We took all 86 adult dogs out there around mid-August to begin the training after a long (and well deserved) summer break. Our daily training routine consisted of feeding […]

The Estonian/Italian Mountain Expedition

A few weeks ago myself and one of the other handlers (plus Troy the dog) hiked up the big mountain behind the property where I live. To reach the top of the mountain takes just over 2 hours. The first stop was a lake with a mailbox where you can ‘sign in’ and let people […]

2 months in…

The 2 month anniversary of my arrival in Norway has just passed so I thought it appropriate to do another blog update since I haven’t done one in over a month! We’ve just had 2 new handlers arrive from Estonia to join the team which is great as the seasons are changing and Autumn is […]

HUSKY PUPDATE!

Here it is, the update you’ve all been waiting for… New puppy pics! So far we have 3 puppies (mother: Aida) who are about 9 weeks old and 6 brand new pups, (mother: Ravn) who are just over 2 weeks old – super cute.

My Time in Målselv

I spent some time in Målselv painting our log cabins that we will be living in once the dog training season comes around. This is about 1.5 hours south of Tromsø in the wilds of Norway. Everywhere you explore there is a photo opportunity. It would have to be one of the most beautiful places I’ve […]